No attachment to your post. Can Windows Disk Management see the drive? How is it listed?

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Give it a drive letter and have Windows format it. You can try a quick format this time - if you can succeed with a format, I would run chkdsk /r on it.

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Create a new drive image before making system changes, in case you need to start over!

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You can run Diskpart on the drive again, only this time use "clean all" instead of just "clean". "Clean all" zeros each and every sector of the disk, whereas "clean" just removes the MBR and partitioning/formatting information on the disk.

Remember that you have to open the Command Prompt with "Run as administrator".

Create a new drive image before making system changes, in case you need to start over!

"Let them that don't want it have memories of not gettin' any." "Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty and the worst I ever had was wonderful." Brother Dave Gardner "Experience is what you get when you're looking for something else." Sir Thomas Robert Deware. "The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Savvy?" Captain Jack Sparrow. Unleash Windows

This is the type of error where if the drive were internal, I would say the SATA cable might be flaking out, misdirected to controller error. If you try diskpart again and it doesn't work, I think you'll have to separate the drive from the enclosure and try a direct SATA connection to see if the enclosure is the culprit or not. If you have one of those screwless horizontally oriented desktop rectangle LaCie's, they're pretty easy to pop out, but I wouldn't know about other formfactors.

If you try diskpart again and it doesn't work, I think you'll have to separate the drive from the enclosure and try a direct SATA connection to see if the enclosure is the culprit or not.

I had an eSATA drive dock flake out on me a couple of months ago. The 1TB drive came up RAW, and nothing worked. As it turned out, I had two drive docks, so I swapped out the dock, and the drive was fine. I had room in my midtower, so I just mounted the 1TB drive internally. The other dock (and drive) are still fine, and I use that as an alternate image target for my laptop.

Create a new drive image before making system changes, in case you need to start over!

"Let them that don't want it have memories of not gettin' any." "Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty and the worst I ever had was wonderful." Brother Dave Gardner "Experience is what you get when you're looking for something else." Sir Thomas Robert Deware. "The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Savvy?" Captain Jack Sparrow. Unleash Windows

In Diskpart, the command "list volume" lists partitions and logical drives on all drives, and from that listing one may only select a partition or logical drive, not an entire disk, as the "select" command allows one to select only one item from that list.

The command "list disk" lists only hard disk drives, CD/DVD drives and card readers that are assigned drive letters, without regard to partitions or logical drives. From that listing one may select an entire drive for further attention.

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I ran DiskPart and clean all after selecting Disk 2 and got "DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk"

What next?

Also, Roderunner - I ran the snipping tool and saved the Command window as "Capture.png" then selected the Image icon above, browsed to that file and selected "upload file" but it did not proceed to upload. I tried to upload the file at least 4 times.

Roderunner - I ran the snipping tool and saved the Command window as "Capture.png" then selected the Image icon above, browsed to that file and selected "upload file" but it did not proceed to upload. I tried to upload the file at least 4 times.

If he has been unable to format the drive it may not have a drive letter so will be harder to find.

Diskpart can assign and manipulate drive letters, but it uses disk numbers to identify drives, starting with Disk 0. If the BIOS can see it, Diskpart can see it.

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Create a new drive image before making system changes, in case you need to start over!

"Let them that don't want it have memories of not gettin' any." "Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty and the worst I ever had was wonderful." Brother Dave Gardner "Experience is what you get when you're looking for something else." Sir Thomas Robert Deware. "The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Savvy?" Captain Jack Sparrow. Unleash Windows